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' flesh crocodile ') is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of living crocodilians that lived during the Early Cretaceous, from the late Hauterivian to the early Albian, 130 to 112 million years ago of what is now Africa and South America. The genus name comes from the Greek σάρξ (sarx) meaning flesh and σοῦχος ...
"Crocodylus" gariepensis is an extinct species of crocodile that lived in southern Africa during the Early Miocene [1] about 17.5 million years ago (Ma). [2] Fossils have been found along a bank of the Orange River in Namibia, near its border with South Africa. [1]
Erythrosuchus (from Greek: ἐρυθρός eruthrós, 'red' and Greek: σοῦχος soukhos, 'crocodile') is an extinct genus of archosauriform reptiles from the early Triassic of South Africa. [1] Remains have been found from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of the Beaufort Group in the Karoo of South Africa. [2]
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population West African slender-snouted crocodile. M. cataphractus F. Cuvier, 1825: Western Africa Size: up to 325 kg (717 lb) Habitat: Forest, savanna, inland wetlands, neritic marine, and coastal marine [21] Diet: [21] CR 1,000–20,000 [21]
The only order-level taxon that is currently considered valid is Crocodilia in its present definition. Prehistoric crocodiles are represented by many taxa, but since few major groups of the ancient forms are distinguishable, a conclusion on how to define new order-level clades is not yet possible. (Benson & Clark, 1988).
This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered in Africa.Africa has a rich fossil record. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. . African dinosaurs from these time periods include Megapnosaurus, Dracovenator, Melanorosaurus, Massospondylus, Euskelosaurus, Heterodontosaurus, Abrictosaurus, and Lesoth
The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos (δεινός), "terrible", and soukhos (σοῦχος), "crocodile". The first remains were discovered in North Carolina (United States) in the 1850s; the genus was named and described in 1909.
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large, semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.The term “crocodile” is sometimes used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both ...